"It would seem to me this is a singularly apt time for hysteria."

This comes at a very apt time.

What apter time could there be, indeed?"

So it seems like an apt time to explore with readers The Times's process for handling covert intelligence stories as the war on terrorism continues.

But they may be moving to later, more atmospherically apt time slots soon enough, if the 4-year-old girl singing along to the set-closing single "Dominoes" is any harbinger.

At St. Ann's, the word is that Mr. Bosworth's advancing years, his obstructionism, not to mention his weirdness, made it an apt time for retirement.

"Many Grail historians," Teabing added, "believe that if the Priory is indeed planning to release this truth, this point in history would be a symbolically apt time.

For all of Mr. Hughley's missed notes and awkward pauses, he still seems as if he has the proper platform, the apt time slot and an ability to innovate.

This is probably an unusual but perhaps apt time for Tareque Masud's intelligent drama, "The Clay Bird," easily one of the finest pictures of 2003 or any other year.

IT'S the season of Easter and Passover, of Holy Scripture and Haggadahs - an apt time to look at some recent books that try to combine religious teachings and business tenets.

It was an apt time for the old dilemma of trying to forget where you were (while being excited by the position) and trying not to think about the uncertainties of the morrow (while looking forward to them).

It is my beloved Spiritual Instructors who guided me to the threshold of Knowledge and enabled me to experience it, by training me to prepare and use each of them in the apt time.

MOTHER'S DAY seems an apt time to consider the observations of a now well-known e-mailer - one who clearly needs a vacation from Westchester - on the kinds of women most often found in the county.

He chose an apt time to score his first league for Mansfield when at the end of the season he scored against local rivals Chesterfield, the goal preserving Mansfield's Third Division status and relegating Chesterfield.

It felt like an apt time for him to jump-start the conversation with one of the lines he recommends for just that purpose, maybe "I bet Noam Chomsky would have something to say about this" or "They say he killed a man" (from "The Great Gatsby").